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Dr. Martin Luther's
Complete Writings,
Fifteenth volume.
Reformation Writings.
First part. The Documents belonging to the
history of the Reformation. A. Against the Papists.
From the years 1517 to 1524.
Published anew by order of the Ministry of the German Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states. St. Louis, Mo. Concordia Publishing House. 1899.
L pages (preface and index) and 2647 columns (text). Price: $5.00 bound in sheepskin.
The careful and tireless editor, Prof. A. F. Hoppe, dated the Foreword to the present volume of our large and beautiful Luther edition at the last Reformation festival. And the whole volume now appears a few weeks after this year's celebration of the Reformation Feast, just in time to hopefully be placed on the Christmas table of many a reader of this paper, many a faithful Lutheran, as a welcome gift. Hardly any other part of the collected works of Luther leads so vividly into the history of that great period of the Reformation years as the newly published one. Step by step, the unique events of the years 1517 to 1524 are presented to us in the relevant documents.
The first chapter shows, in 104 longer or shorter documents, the horrible evil and terrible destruction in the Roman Church, especially Tetzel's indulgences, which gave rise to Luther's 95 Theses and thus to the beginning of the Reformation work.
The second chapter describes in 59 documents the beginning of the Reformation, Luther's opposition to indulgences and the papal countermeasures up to the Imperial Diet in Augsburg in 1518.
The third chapter presents the history of this Diet in 84 numbers, especially the well-known disputations between Luther and the papal delegate Cajetan.
The fourth chapter brings in 103 documents of the equally known negotiations of Luther with the second papal delegate Carl von Miltitz.
Particularly detailed is the fifth chapter, which presents the complete history of the famous Leipzig disputation between the papal Dr. Eck on the one hand and Dr. Luther and Dr. Carlstadt on the other hand in 77 different documents on no less than 576 columns.
No less interesting is the sixth chapter, which contains the entire history of the ban imposed on Luther by the Pope and its consequences in 90 documents.
The seventh chapter then leads into the time of the famous Diet of Worms in 1521, when Luther, because he did not want to recant, was put under imperial ban and led by his Elector on his way home from Worms to Wartburg Castle for protection (102 documents).
This is followed in the eighth chapter by an account of what happened during Luther's stay in his Patmos at the Wartburg, namely in Wittenberg, and how Luther was prompted by Carlstadt's iconoclasm to leave his safe haven and return to Wittenberg (91 documents).
Finally, the ninth chapter reports on the two imperial congresses at Nuremberg in 1522 and 1524 and their consequences (49 numbers).
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